Category: Software

  • How people tweet in China

    How people tweet in China

    Whenever China is a topic of business conversation, a communication service that’s talked about is Sina Weibo. The micro-blogging service – China’s Twitter equivalent – got mainstream attention outside China last month over its use as a primary communication channel…

  • Scroll 7" tablet first impressions

    If you’re in the market for a tablet computer, you have a number of options. The obvious one, that everyone talks about, is the iPad. It was the brand that rebooted an entire market and quickly established the benchmark for…

  • Touching Windows 8

    If you have an interest in PC software and, in particular, operating systems, you’ll probably remember the milestones in each consumer release of Microsoft Windows. You may have fond memories of some versions, eg, Windows XP. Others, like Windows Me,…

  • The trouble with Dell’s Vostro V130

    For the past four months, I’ve been enjoying my time with a Dell Vostro V130 laptop computer as a participant in Dell’s #tradesecrets marketing campaign for the machine that Dell ran during the first quarter of this year. This Animoto…

  • Salesforce and Radian6 combination signals social media ecosystem consolidation

    Yesterday’s announcement that Salesforce.com has offered to acquire Radian6 for $326 million strongly suggests that an embryonic social media ecosystem is evolving from a monitoring/analytics tools and services landscape that, broadly speaking, is immature, fragmented and piecemeal and ripe for…